Chapter Summaries

As Gu Masters from the Southern Border factions gathered before a secret realm, Kamizuki Yu used his special vision to study them and uncovered the entrance’s hidden screening laws. When the passage opened and the factions rushed inside, he spotted a golden road made of time Dao marks and left the main group for an overlooked corner.

• Kamizuki Yu examined the assembled Gu Masters with his Byakugan and judged their strengths, flaws, and hidden Gu insects.
• A rogue cultivator charged the unstable rift and was erased after its laws rejected him as incompatible.
• The rift released an Immortal Gu aura and opened a stable passage, prompting the gathered factions to rush inside.
• Kamizuki Yu saw a golden road of time Dao marks, left Tianyuan Sect’s group, and headed toward a remote corner.

Kamizuki Yu entered a secret realm made entirely of Dao Marks and discovered that its energy and hazards were deadly to ordinary Gu Masters. After controlling three intruders as scouts, he began testing the realm’s paths, identifying one as instantly fatal to living bodies.

• Kamizuki Yu entered the secret realm and saw that its landscape consisted of Dao Marks, while Immortal Gu phantoms flickered in the sky.
• Several injured Gu Masters arrived, and one died after absorbing the realm’s Dao Mark energy through his cultivation technique.
• Kamizuki Yu explained the danger, then controlled the scar-faced man and two other Gu Masters to use as scouts.
• Kamizuki Yu sent the scar-faced man into gray mist and identified its distortion and corrosion Dao Marks after the man was torn apart.
• Kamizuki Yu ordered one of the remaining controlled Gu Masters to follow a path filled with birdsong and blooming flowers.

Kamizuki Yu watched the Immortal Gu’s aura activate the secret realm’s ancient restriction, which caused Gu insects to turn on their masters and made the area near the core impassable. He began devising a way to bypass the restriction after noticing the fallen Gu Masters’ corpses.

• Kamizuki Yu sent a controlled Gu Master along a flower-covered path, where withering dao marks drained his life until he collapsed into ash.
• A dense Immortal Gu aura erupted from the secret realm’s core, and Kamizuki Yu recognized that it had triggered the realm’s defense mechanism.
• As Gu Masters rushed toward the aura, the spatial distortion caused their Gu insects to go berserk and kill them, including the Black Mountain Tribe chief.
• A great clan elder attacked the restriction with a black scorpion’s venom, but the restriction distorted and magnified it, killing him and his Gu insect.
• Kamizuki Yu sent his remaining controlled Gu Master to hide, then studied the corpses and began forming a plan to deceive or bypass the restriction.

Kamizuki Yu used his Byakugan to find gaps in a deadly restriction and crossed it without triggering its backlash. He reached the quiet core, where a crystalline butterfly Immortal Gu floated inside an even more intricate barrier, and cautiously approached the final lock.

• Kamizuki Yu activated his Byakugan and saw that the restriction was formed from dense Dao marks with fleeting gaps between them.
• Kamizuki Yu carefully threaded his way through the restriction while the Gu Masters outside watched in disbelief.
• A Gu Master attacked with Flameburst Gu, and the restriction amplified the fire and reflected it back, killing him.
• Kamizuki Yu ignored a trapped Gu Master’s plea for help and continued toward the Immortal Gu’s life-bearing aura.
• Kamizuki Yu reached the restriction’s core, found a crystalline butterfly Immortal Gu inside a precise spherical barrier, and cautiously extended a finger toward it.

Kamizuki Yu watched Fang Yuan exploit other Gu Masters and the restriction’s defenses to advance toward its core. After learning how the defenses worked, Yu turned his attention back to the Immortal Gu barrier and touched it.

• Kamizuki Yu noticed Fang Yuan and three recruited Gu Masters approaching the restriction, then withdrew his hand to watch them.
• Fang Yuan persuaded Old Li to test the restriction; after Old Li was killed by earthen spears, Fang Yuan used the opening to slip inside.
• Fang Yuan avoided elemental creatures by waiting for other intruders to trigger the defenses and draw them away.
• Kamizuki Yu studied the restriction through his [Byakugan], inferred how its defenses operated, and decided not to interfere with Fang Yuan.
• Kamizuki Yu returned to the final barrier and touched it with his fingertip.

Kamizuki Yu silently dismantled the restriction around the Strength Gu, then watched the Gu Masters kill one another while he avoided their attacks. After the last two fighters fell, he took the Immortal Gu from Old Ghost Huang, who had nearly claimed it himself.

• Kamizuki Yu touched the light barrier and caused it to disintegrate, revealing the Strength Gu.
• The surviving Gu Masters rushed the Immortal Gu and fought in a chaotic melee while Fang Yuan held back and Kamizuki Yu walked untouched through the attacks.
• Zhang the Barbarian and Old Ghost Huang were the final survivors, and Old Ghost Huang killed Zhang with Black Light Annihilation.
• As Old Ghost Huang reached for the Strength Gu, Kamizuki Yu took it first and stored it away.
• Kamizuki Yu looked at the exhausted Old Ghost Huang and remarked that he was still there.

Kamizuki Yu effortlessly subdued the Strength Gu and ignored the battlefield’s factions, leaving the Tianyuan Sect Master and the survivors stunned by his power. When Black Fiend Old Demon confronted him in the name of Sacred Demon Hall, Kamizuki Yu said he had never heard of it and ordered him to leave.

• The dying old man surnamed Huang demanded that Kamizuki Yu return the Strength Gu, but Kamizuki Yu tapped it with one finger and instantly stilled it.
• Hidden Gu Masters and Tianyuan Sect disciples witnessed the feat, and Zhao Wuji concluded that Kamizuki Yu could not be opposed.
• Old man Huang laughed bitterly at the slaughter over an Immortal Gu that Kamizuki Yu treated as an insect, then rapidly withered as his life force ran out.
• Kamizuki Yu put away the Strength Gu and turned to leave, but Zhao Wuji introduced himself and respectfully asked for his name.
• Black Fiend Old Demon emerged and claimed the Strength Gu was reserved by Sacred Demon Hall, but Kamizuki Yu said he had never heard of it and told him to get lost.

Kamizuki Yu annihilated Black Fiend Old Demon and studied the Strength Gu in seclusion, discovering that analyzing Immortal Gu let him adapt his power to the world's laws and weaken its suppression. After realizing he needed more Immortal Gu, he set his sights on the Sacred Demon Hall.

• Black Fiend Old Demon demanded the Strength Gu and threatened Kamizuki Yu, but Kamizuki Yu erased the demonic aura and turned him to ash with a thought.
• Zhao Wuji and the gathered disciples knelt in fear, and Zhao Wuji ordered the incident sealed as the sect's highest secret and Kamizuki Yu's face memorized.
• Kamizuki Yu retreated to a cliffside cave, secured the Strength Gu, and used his Rinnegan and Dao Mark Analysis Eye to examine its law structure.
• Kamizuki Yu discovered that studying the Strength Gu helped his power resonate with the world's laws, reducing the world's suppression of him.
• Kamizuki Yu decided to seek more Immortal Gu and left the cave with the Sacred Demon Hall in mind.

Rumors about Kamizuki Yu’s effortless capture of an Immortal Gu spread across the Southern Border, making him a legend to young Gu Masters and a feared taboo to the major powers. While he enjoyed the protection his reputation brought, he heard that the Sacred Demon Hall’s time-path Immortal Gu was about to mature.

• Gu Masters in Blackstone City spread increasingly exaggerated stories about Kamizuki taking an Immortal Gu and killing a peak Rank Five devil with a flick.
• Tianyuan Sect failed to identify Kamizuki, and Li Tianyi ordered the sect to treat him with the utmost courtesy, classify him as a taboo, and warn the other major powers.
• Righteous and demonic leaders across the Southern Border took precautions, while young Gu Masters began idolizing Kamizuki.
• Kamizuki Yu listened to the rumors at a remote teahouse and thought his growing reputation would make future plans easier and draw stronger opponents to him.
• Kamizuki Yu heard that the Sacred Demon Hall’s time-path Immortal Gu was about to mature, then paid for his tea and left.

Kamizuki Yu entered the Immortal Gu Secret Realm at Sacred Demon Hall and signed in, receiving the Immortal Gu Refinement Method and the Dao Mark Fusion Secret Art. He discovered a Time path Immortal Gu undergoing its final metamorphosis and prepared to borrow its Dao marks.

• Kamizuki Yu traveled to Ten Thousand Demons Mountain and silently broke through Sacred Demon Hall's mountain-protecting formation and demonic restrictions.
• Kamizuki Yu killed the two Rank Five elders guarding the underground secret realm and entered the Immortal Gu Secret Realm.
• Kamizuki Yu signed in after comprehending the origin of Strength Gu and received the Immortal Gu Refinement Method and Dao Mark Fusion Secret Art.
• Kamizuki Yu realized the secret art could let him fuse Dao marks to create new laws and unique Gu suited to him.
• Kamizuki Yu found a cicada-shaped Time path Immortal Gu nearing its final metamorphosis and told it he only wanted to borrow its Dao marks.

Kamizuki Yu analyzed the Time path Immortal Gu and used its Dao Marks to understand the laws of time, expanding his ambitions beyond collecting Gu to building a world of his own. He left the secret realm with a plan to gather more Immortal Gu, starting at the Ten Thousand Gu Pit.

• The Time path Immortal Gu unleashed chaotic time across the secret realm, but Kamizuki Yu contained it with his control over space.
• Kamizuki Yu activated the [Immortal Gu Refinement Method] and analyzed the Immortal Gu's Time Dao Marks without damaging them.
• Kamizuki Yu concluded that Gu Immortals embodied laws and envisioned using the [Dao Mark Fusion Secret Art] to construct a private divine kingdom or universe.
• Kamizuki Yu decided he needed more kinds of Dao Marks and identified the Ten Thousand Gu Pit as a source of wild Immortal Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu finalized his plan and walked toward the secret realm's exit.

Kamizuki Yu was attacked by the remnant soul of a Gu Immortal, whose probing triggered a backlash that nearly contaminated his laws of space and time. He analyzed and absorbed the law fragments instead, then turned deeper into the secret realm to search for the Gu Immortal’s inheritance.

• Kamizuki Yu sensed an ancient consciousness probing him as he prepared to leave the secret realm.
• The remnant soul intruded into Kamizuki Yu’s mind, and his higher-level Dao annihilated it while the backlash flooded him with chaotic law fragments.
• Kamizuki Yu used the Immortal Gu Refinement Method to analyze and devour the fragments, recording Dao marks including resentment, decay, metal, stone, and blood.
• After the chaos settled, Kamizuki Yu sensed the remnant soul’s source and decided to search its remaining nest for Immortal Gu or information.
• Kamizuki Yu abandoned his plan to travel to the Ten Thousand Gu Pit and headed deeper into the secret realm.

Kamizuki Yu developed the Dao Mark Fusion Secret Art and used it to create Myriad Forms Gu, a Gu insect that combined and simulated different abilities. After testing its powers, he discovered it consumed his Cosmic Creation Law, leaving its use tied to his own origin power.

• Kamizuki Yu extracted basic Dao Marks from mortal Gu and tried fusing them, but their conflicting attributes nearly destroyed the secret chamber.
• Kamizuki Yu added the Deception Dao-Mark, which made the conflicting Dao Marks accept one another and fuse successfully.
• Kamizuki Yu created Myriad Forms Gu, bound it with his essence blood, and commanded it to simulate Diamond Gu and Gale Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu tested Myriad Forms Gu's composite poisonous-flame and illusion abilities, finding its potential nearly limitless.
• Kamizuki Yu discovered that Myriad Forms Gu consumed his Cosmic Creation Law, so only he could use it and overuse could weaken his foundation.

Kamizuki Yu emerged from seclusion and received Tianyuan Sect’s invitation to become its guest Grand Elder, then accompanied Elder Xuanmu to Misty Canyon. After effortlessly rescuing the trapped disciples with two Gu insects, he left Elder Xuanmu convinced that his hidden background was beyond comprehension.

• Tianyuan Sect sent Elder Xuanmu to invite Kamizuki Yu to become its guest Grand Elder and secretly test him with a Truth-Testing Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu declined the responsibilities of the position but agreed to visit Misty Canyon, where Tianyuan Sect disciples and rescuers were trapped.
• On the way, Kamizuki Yu described ancient figures who had guided him, and the Truth-Testing Gu convinced Elder Xuanmu that his claims were true.
• Kamizuki Yu sent a Tracking Gu and a Barrier-Breaking Gu into Misty Canyon, locating and freeing more than a dozen trapped disciples without damaging the formation.
• Elder Xuanmu was stunned by Kamizuki Yu’s precise use of the Gu insects and grew even more convinced that Tianyuan Sect had encountered an unknowable power.

After Kamizuki Yu rescued Tianyuan Sect's disciples and demonstrated extraordinary control over a natural formation, the Great Elder personally tried and failed to recruit him. Kamizuki left the sect with a valuable formation insight, and the elders ordered everyone to avoid provoking him.

• Elder Xuanmu told Tianyuan Sect's elders how Kamizuki Yu used the Myriad Forms Gu to open the Misty Canyon formation and rescue the trapped disciples.
• Kamizuki Yu received a Rank Five Veil of Mist Gu worm for checking in at Misty Canyon.
• The Great Elder offered Kamizuki the position of Guest Great Elder, access to the Scripture Repository, and the sect's support, but Kamizuki declined.
• When the Great Elder warned Kamizuki about the demonic path, Kamizuki's overwhelming presence froze him, and Kamizuki said he welcomed enemies as chances to test his new Gu worms.
• Kamizuki left behind a jade slip containing his insights into the formation, and the Great Elder ordered the sect to treat him as a highest-level Do Not Provoke target.

After Kamizuki Yu refused Tianyuan Sect’s recruitment, demonic Gu Masters invented a legend about his secret treasure, drawing greedy hunters toward him. Three demonic overlords planned to ambush him at Falling Soul Valley, leaving a deadly trap ready as he headed there.

• Rumors spread that Kamizuki Yu had refused Tianyuan Sect’s offer of a guest elder position and a Rank Five Gu worm, prompting demonic Gu Masters to speculate that he possessed a greater treasure.
• Demonic overlords fabricated the Kamizuki Secret Treasure legend to send lesser Gu Masters after Kamizuki Yu and expose his strength and hidden methods.
• Blood-Handed Butcher, Ghost Shadow Without Trace, and Madam Ten Thousand Poisons discussed Kamizuki Yu’s unknown origins and agreed to seize his secrets.
• Ghost Shadow Without Trace revealed that he had learned Kamizuki Yu was heading to Falling Soul Valley and planned to use a fragment of Immortal Gu, the Causal Grafting Gu, to transfer some harm to a mortal kingdom.
• Ghost Shadow Without Trace proposed trapping Kamizuki Yu with the Four-Sided Spirit-Severing Formation, and the three overlords agreed to ambush him and divide his supposed treasure.

Kamizuki Yu entered Falling Soul Valley and was ambushed by Blood-Handed Butcher, Madam Ten Thousand Poisons, and Ghost Shadow Without Trace. He secretly turned Ghost Shadow Without Trace’s causal graft back on his own Shadow Escape Gu, then used only the Myriad Forms Gu to absorb and analyze Madam Ten Thousand Poisons’s poison.

• Kamizuki Yu entered the Four-Sided Spirit-Severing Formation and recognized its crude flaws.
• Blood-Handed Butcher, Madam Ten Thousand Poisons, and Ghost Shadow Without Trace surrounded Kamizuki Yu and demanded the Kamizuki secret treasure.
• Ghost Shadow Without Trace linked Kamizuki Yu with the Causal Grafting Gu, but Kamizuki Yu redirected the connection to Ghost Shadow Without Trace’s Shadow Escape Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu decided to test the Myriad Forms Gu against the three attackers without using any other power.
• Madam Ten Thousand Poisons attacked with Soul-Devouring Bone-Eroding Powder, but the Myriad Forms Gu shield absorbed and analyzed it, leaving her shocked.

Kamizuki Yu used Myriad Forms Gu to break Bloodhand Butcher’s blood river, expose Ghost Shadow Without Trace, and copy and strengthen Madam Ten Thousand Poisons’s soul poison. The three demonic Gu Masters were left struggling against their own signature methods as Kamizuki Yu continued to overwhelm them.

• Bloodhand Butcher summoned his Blood Sea Banner and sent a vast river of blood crashing toward Kamizuki Yu.
• Kamizuki Yu transformed his Myriad Forms Gu shield into a golden blade and split the blood river, severely damaging Bloodhand Butcher’s vital Gu.
• Ghost Shadow Without Trace sneaked toward Kamizuki Yu, but True-Word Spores revealed his location and thoughts.
• Madam Ten Thousand Poisons unleashed Soul-Eroding Poison Mist, and Kamizuki Yu analyzed it and added its formula to Myriad Forms Gu’s database.
• Kamizuki Yu’s Myriad Forms Gu reproduced an upgraded version of the poison, forcing Madam Ten Thousand Poisons to defend herself against it.

Kamizuki Yu used the Myriad Forms Gu to overwhelm the three demonic giants in Falling Soul Valley, demonstrating that it could combine and optimize many Gu abilities at once. He crippled their life-bound Gu, destroyed the valley formation, and left as news spread that his Gu had been named God Gu.

• Kamizuki Yu revealed the Myriad Forms Gu as a liquid orb that simultaneously wielded abilities from four different Gu insects.
• Blood-Handed Butcher unleashed the Blood Demon, but Kamizuki Yu imprisoned it in a spatial cage and severed their connection.
• The Myriad Forms Gu struck Ghost Shadow Without Trace with a Soul-Suppressing Gu, while his karma-grafting technique returned the damage to his Shadowless Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu overwhelmed Madam Ten Thousand Poisons with enhanced versions of her own poisons, defeating all three demonic giants.
• Kamizuki Yu destroyed the Four-Sided Spirit-Severing Formation and crippled the three giants' life-bound Gu instead of killing them.
• News of the battle spread, and the Myriad Forms Gu became known as God Gu.

News of Kamizuki Yu crippling three demonic-path experts with his God Gu spread throughout the Five Regions, drawing alarm and interest from powerful factions. As Heavenly Court considered him a possible otherworldly threat, other Gu Immortals chose caution or curiosity, while Kamizuki Yu remained unaware of the attention.

• A witness reported in a Southern Border tavern that Kamizuki Yu had crippled Blood-Handed Butcher, Madam Ten Thousand Poisons, and Ghost Shadow Without Trace with his God Gu.
• Reports about Kamizuki Yu and the God Gu spread across the Five Regions, and intelligence chiefs assessed that his power might transcend the mortal realm.
• Sage Lord Zi Wei studied the report at Heavenly Court, suspected the God Gu followed laws from beyond the world, and decided to inform a sleeping lord.
• Savage Martial Heavenly Lord ordered Northern Plains forces to observe Kamizuki Yu, avoid provoking him, and offer goodwill if possible.
• Countless Calculations failed to calculate Kamizuki Yu's fate, suffered backlash from his Heavenly Secret Calculation Gu, and concluded that he must not be made an enemy.
• Kamizuki Yu sat on a boulder in Southern Border, unaware of the attention surrounding him and merely blaming the spicy barbecue for feeling overheated.